I animated the flames on these torches, for the Burn Liberty shot. In my illustration the flames were painted directly on the level of the monks. I therefor had to remove the flames from the monk layer. This meant that I needed to re-animate the monks once I had animated the flames. Both monks involved using pins to pose the monks in the extreme positions and then adding a slow out and slow in to each.
The sparks are spatters which are used throughout the film. This time I experimented with using a fractal noise pattern to add some swirling motion as the sparks rise. This didn’t work out quite as I expected. The sparks morphed shape rather than moving in a spiraling patters. It added an unexpected look and I decided to keep it.
Above each flame I added a turbulent displacement to the background to show the rising heat. This worked quite well and I started using the effect on other scenes. I only have a few more flaming scenes to animate and then I have several low resolution scenes that need fixing.